It is also drowned out by the predictable
prattling of supposedly responsible Muslim 'leaders' who think that the
words of the Pope taken completely out of context are somehow worse than the
senseless murder of a fellow human being: "Morocco's King Mohammed recalled
his Vatican ambassador for consultations, while Yemen's president denounced
the pontiff." Turkish legislator Salih Kapusuz said Benedict's comments
put the Pope "in
the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini."
There are major
protests planned in Iran.

So Benedict should have reached out instead to Muslims, as John Paul II did?
It wouldn't do him any good - John Paul II was also the target of Jihadist
assassination plots. Even before Benedict made his remarks, a Turkish novelist
asked Who
Will Kill The Pope In Istanbul? Pope Benedict XVI too is a marked man regardless
of what he says or does, he simply is an infidel and therefore fit only to die.

Where are the millions of decent Muslims who don't want this to be what the
world sees when it looks at Islam?